Hanshin
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Yucy and Yudy are two conjoined twins who have been together since birth. However, as the nutrients in their bodies distribute unevenly, Yucy is beautiful yet slow-minded while Yudy is intelligent and horrifically ugly. Yudy is torn between her love for her sister and her hate for having to care for Yucy; can the two continue to co-exist?
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Helter Skelter
- Vol: 1; Ch: 9
- 2003
Ririko is Japan's top fashion model; her image is on every magazine cover and in everyone's mind. But in private, Ririko is very unhappy, confused and lost. Overworked and tired, she turns to dangerous experimental procedures to maintain her youth and beauty. However, soon it's not enough and Ririko begins to fall into a downward spiral filled with lies, surgery, and blackmail. Just how far is Ririko willing to go to stay on top? And who is the true woman behind all the make up and rumors?
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add recHanshin and Helter Skelter are psychologically dark stories exploring the nature of beauty, and the negative effects that pursuing or obsessing over it can have.
Both manga deal with sacrfice for beauty. Both are psychological, dark, and deal with the lengths people will go to for perfection.
Baptism
Izumi Shoichi is a beautiful and talented actress - or so she appears to be. Underneath her heavy makeup she hides a disfiguring skin condition and despises her appearance to the point of madness, wanting nothing more than to be beautiful again. She enlists the help of her family doctor and eventually has a child, Sakura, who she runs away with and is never seen on the screen again. Now, Sakura is a little girl who witnesses the manic and controlling behavior of her mother so that she may grow up to be lovely and perfect; but little does she know the real and horrifying reason her mother brought her into this world...
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